Talk:AppleTV

From Mactel-Linux

Great to see the progress on the AppleTV, but just a few more hints are appreciated. Am I guessing right, that the patched linux kernel is compiled on a Mac OS X computer, and the resulting binary is used to replace the boot.efi? Or what files go where, and where and how are the sources compiled? Where does the actual linux distribution go? Onto the HFS+ BootOS partition, or is the Media partition erased and replaced with a ext3 partition that then holds the regular linux rootfs?

1. No. I compiled the kernel on a bog standard Ubuntu on x86.

2. The resulting binary does not replace boot.efi

3. You put the custom boot loader on OSBoot and Recovery partitions, edit the apple bootloader configuration to point to it. Then shrink the Media partition, create Linux boot, root and swap partitions. ext3 for boot and root.

4. Linux distribution goes in the Linux boot and root partitions you created.

My notes on installing Debian Etch are here: http://markferry.net/AppleTV.Linux#Log (this page is not a HOWTO!)

- Gnomeza 04:34, 26 July 2007 (PDT)